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Monday, March 09, 2015

Chickens.

“Jay.” Charlie’s voice is not as sleepy as it should be for
four a.m. That’s kind of a warning!

“Hi!”

“How long have you been up?”

“About three hours. I slept almost two,” I explain so Charlie
won’t worry at all. She worries way too much even if she’d never
call it that.

“And there is a reason you a) have an outfit of a chicken on and b)
were wearing it at all?” she asks, but doesn’t tick the points
off on her fingers so it might be all OK.

“Yup!”

Charlie sits up in her motel bed. “And that reason is?”

“I did a poem that was really popular –.”

“So you went outside at 3 in the morning to do a chicken dance?”

“Oh! No, but I could –.”

“Let’s not and say you did. Why?”

I could make a joke asking if this is about ‘why did the Jay cross
the road’ but! sometimes I’m pretty smart so I don’t. “Cuz I
need stuff to write about as a poet, Charlie. You don’t want me
writing about you, and Honcho gets twitchy if I write about him
too much and I don’t really know other people like I do you so I
figured I need experiences to write about instead!”

“Like dressing up as a chicken?”

“Uh-huh.”

Charlie is quiet at that, but it’s not a mad-quiet. “Pack. I’m
calling Honcho when he and Dana are awake, and we’re heading to the
nearest city where the local magician won’t make a fuss about us.”

“We are?”

“We travel, and we never stay, and that does make it hard for you
to make more friends – ones not on tumblr,” she adds before I can
protest. “So we’re going to do that. I’ve enough saved up from
things we’ve done for the fae for at least two months in a decent
apartment.”

“It doesn’t take that long to make friends, because bindings –.”

“I’m going to enrol you in a school. Maybe even a human one,
because you are right: you need to make more friends.”

I scratch my head at that, because I don’t think I meant that at
all, but Charlie seems determined and I guess this is why the
Jaychicken crossed the road?!

A collection of miscellany

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

- Dr. Joycelyn Elders

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

- Will Shetterly

We are living in a time when you can believe anything, as long as you do not claim it to be true.

- Ravi Zacharia

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

- Richard Dawkins

In the time of harmony the golden age is not in the past, it is in the future

- Paul Signac

"No" is the wildest word in the English language.

- Emily Dickinson

The middle ground between genuinely true and outright faking is unconscious delusion.

- Dean Radin

“You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it’s hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it’s better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can’t write anybody’s book but your own.”